Self-Compassion and Rumination Type Mediate the Relation between Mindfulness and Parental Burnout

Marine Paucsik, Agata Urbanowicz, Christophe Leys, Ilios Kotsou, Céline Baeyens and Rebecca Shankland
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Marine Paucsik: University Grenoble Alpes, LIP/PC2S, 38000 Grenoble, France
Agata Urbanowicz: University Grenoble Alpes, LIP/PC2S, 38000 Grenoble, France
Christophe Leys: Unité de Psychologie Sociale et Interculturelle, University Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Ilios Kotsou: Unité de Psychologie Sociale et Interculturelle, University Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Céline Baeyens: University Grenoble Alpes, LIP/PC2S, 38000 Grenoble, France
Rebecca Shankland: Chair of Economic Peace, Mindfulness, and Well-Being at Work, Grenoble Ecole de Management, 38000 Grenoble, France

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-12

Abstract: The COVID-19 lockdown increased the day-to-day challenges faced by parents, and thereby may have increased parental burnout risk. Therefore, identifying parental burnout protection factors is essential. This study aimed to assess the protective role of the following factors which can be increased through mindfulness practice: trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and concrete vs. abstract ruminations. A total of 459 parents ( M age = 40; 98.7% female) completed self-reported questionnaires at two-time points to assess the predictive role of mindfulness on parental burnout, self-compassion and rumination type, and the mediating role of self-compassion and rumination type in the relation between mindfulness and parental burnout. Results showed that trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and rumination type at Time 1 predicted levels of parental burnout at Time 2. Self-compassion (indirect effects: b = ??22, 95% CI = [?38, ?05], p < 0.01), concrete ruminations (indirect effects: b = ?20, 95% CI = [?32, ?09], p Keywords: lockdown; mindfulness; parental burnout; ruminations; self-compassion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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